Tuesday, February 19, 2008
ITS COMING SOON!!
My first upcoming race is 2 weeks away now! exciting! I haven't been running so I need to get on that but its just been nasty weather so I didn't want to risk getting sick. My brother and his wife visited so I only got in a run on Sunday I went about 5.5 miles and I'm still sore today...not a good sign. I kept a good fast pace and it felt good though. My bro. and I were wrestling some so I guess that could count as training for the full contact sport of triathlon swimming! lower body wieghts and swimming Monday and today! YEAHH!!
Friday, February 15, 2008
V-day
It is a cauliflower sheep!
I think that was just pretty cool. I was super scared they were going to turn brown before she saw them.
Thank goodness the watermelon was pretty easy and really colorful! Awsome! 
Finally a rush to put it all together and make the delivery!Well, Valentine's Day has come and gone. Here was my project for my vegetarian girlfriend. I hope to get in a couple hours of MTN biking this afternoon.My brother and his wife are coming into town so that should be great times!
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Cookies!
Girlscout cookies are going to be my downfall. I've probably eaten about 1 and 1/2 boxes of their delicious and non nuritious cookies by myself. I woke up early this morning so I went for a swim 900yards. It was pretty good. At the end I tried to do the butterfly and some people were trying to help me. I think the lady in the office was either calling her friends or a zoo to get report some wild flaling animal in the pool!
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Slacker!
So every weekend since my last little post I've been riding 3 hours on my mounainbike and lifting at the gym. Not alot of running at all and still swimming at least 1 time a week. I really need to put in more time doing a little in all the sports. I ran a 3.1 mile cross country little race and my time was 25:02 not too good but what I expected from not training too much. On the up and up my new team jersey came in today and I'll be trying it out at the 60 miler Ouachita Challenge!
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Suffer-O-Rama
So yesterday was a nasty day. lots of rain but I was looking foward to getting back on my trainer, which I had let my girlfriend borrow for a while. I arrived 20 min. early to my spin class to put in some extra little did I know that 2 hours of lactic acid burn was ahead of me. We watched a Troy Jacobs tape as usual and this one included workouts such as 100%-110% intensity for up 1 minute each with 30 sec rests. 30 sec out of saddle and 45 sec in saddle for 5 min. at 90% intensity. It HURT I am really glad we did that.
Monday, January 7, 2008
december cap off
So most of December was some swimming I got up to 1 mile and felt good. My traps were getting a little tired but I learned to kick better. This makes my swimming pull feel way better.
I signed up for a 60 mile bike tour in the Ouachita mountains which is supposed to be a brutual ride. I plan on spending lots of time in the saddle!
I signed up for a 60 mile bike tour in the Ouachita mountains which is supposed to be a brutual ride. I plan on spending lots of time in the saddle!
Monday, December 3, 2007
Welcome home wayward son
Well, eventful past few days. I finally feel like a runner again. Sunday, I ran 10 miles with some people from the triathlon team it reminded me of when I ran and why I love it. Saturday, I watched my girl run a marathon. It was really fun to see all the runners energy and all of the different emotions in everyone's faces. Friday, I swam 800 yrds ran 5 miles and swam 400 yrds. I really do miss running, the wind, the breathing, the sound of my feet on the ground, so many emotions and miles passing. I hope I can do it for years to come.
How did I end up with a vegetarian girlfriend? First off you have to understand the background that I was hurled into as a Sanderson, whose family crest is “plenty of food and plenty of people to eat it.” All family functions involved the women and select male cooks of the families to bring their best dishes mainly chocked full of meat. Eating meat was a serious deal, and how to cook it was a family conversation. I was raised in the South around southern people in country backwoods places. I know how to skin animals I know what I have to do to catch crawfish. It is not uncommon to see a dead deer tied to someone’s four-wheeler which is sitting high in the bed of their truck while they drive through town as if to show off their kill. Most all of my family hunts or owns firearms with intentions to harvest an animal from the woods with intentions of eating the meat and developing stories of how big the said animal was. On Christmas, camouflage gear WILL be a present to someone. We’ve raised all sorts of animals to eat later on geese, chickens, pig…. I guess you could call it free grazing. So that is my background, in a meat flavored nutshell. I recently started seeing and dating a vegetarian (on her way to becoming vegan). How does this work? I ask myself all the time. 99.975% of the time it is compromise on my part. Is it difficult? Not really. Does it take understanding? Yes. It is not even blending two lifestyles together because that would compromise her vegetarian lifestyle. Is it a novelty? I don’t know yet. Right now I’m educating and learning. It’s something new and fun. People come together in my family at the dinner table. It is where we find out commons and differences about one another. Now on my dinner table I have a vegetarian sitting across from me. Does she look down on me because I’m eating this meat in front of her? I like passionate and driven people and the things that interested her about going to a vegetarian lifestyle must have been a very passionate feeling. In turn I like that she is what she is as different as it is from me. Does she try to turn me to the green side? I’ve sensed little passes of trying to get me in the mindset that’s for sure. Will it always be a topic for discussion every time I see her? I think it is like dating someone from a different race or culture I will never know what it’s like because I’m not vegetarian but I can sympathize. I hope I can get to know her enough to where it is just a smooth seam in our little dating journey. Though it does conflict with my upbringing tremendously I do not find it troubling. She does seem interested in how I tend to find other foods worth experimenting with and how open I am to things that she considers everyday. As a matter of fact she made me some vegetarian dish and that is what I ate for lunch today. So maybe I am turning! Haha!
Mileage:
swim 1200 yrds
run 15 miles
How did I end up with a vegetarian girlfriend? First off you have to understand the background that I was hurled into as a Sanderson, whose family crest is “plenty of food and plenty of people to eat it.” All family functions involved the women and select male cooks of the families to bring their best dishes mainly chocked full of meat. Eating meat was a serious deal, and how to cook it was a family conversation. I was raised in the South around southern people in country backwoods places. I know how to skin animals I know what I have to do to catch crawfish. It is not uncommon to see a dead deer tied to someone’s four-wheeler which is sitting high in the bed of their truck while they drive through town as if to show off their kill. Most all of my family hunts or owns firearms with intentions to harvest an animal from the woods with intentions of eating the meat and developing stories of how big the said animal was. On Christmas, camouflage gear WILL be a present to someone. We’ve raised all sorts of animals to eat later on geese, chickens, pig…. I guess you could call it free grazing. So that is my background, in a meat flavored nutshell. I recently started seeing and dating a vegetarian (on her way to becoming vegan). How does this work? I ask myself all the time. 99.975% of the time it is compromise on my part. Is it difficult? Not really. Does it take understanding? Yes. It is not even blending two lifestyles together because that would compromise her vegetarian lifestyle. Is it a novelty? I don’t know yet. Right now I’m educating and learning. It’s something new and fun. People come together in my family at the dinner table. It is where we find out commons and differences about one another. Now on my dinner table I have a vegetarian sitting across from me. Does she look down on me because I’m eating this meat in front of her? I like passionate and driven people and the things that interested her about going to a vegetarian lifestyle must have been a very passionate feeling. In turn I like that she is what she is as different as it is from me. Does she try to turn me to the green side? I’ve sensed little passes of trying to get me in the mindset that’s for sure. Will it always be a topic for discussion every time I see her? I think it is like dating someone from a different race or culture I will never know what it’s like because I’m not vegetarian but I can sympathize. I hope I can get to know her enough to where it is just a smooth seam in our little dating journey. Though it does conflict with my upbringing tremendously I do not find it troubling. She does seem interested in how I tend to find other foods worth experimenting with and how open I am to things that she considers everyday. As a matter of fact she made me some vegetarian dish and that is what I ate for lunch today. So maybe I am turning! Haha!
Mileage:
swim 1200 yrds
run 15 miles
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